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Colleges & Universities (Part 6) Quiz

Are you ready for Part 6? Identify the college or university by the association. As always, I apologize for the overweighting given to U.S. colleges and universities.

A multiple-choice quiz by LUCA_BRASI. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
LUCA_BRASI

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
313,653

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
567

Last 3 plays: hosertodd (10/10), RJOhio (5/10), daveguth (6/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. What school's win over Kentucky for the 1966 NCAA men's basketball championship is depicted in the 2006 film "Glory Road"?
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Indiana University

Texas Western College

Marquette University

The Citadel

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Question 2 of 10

2. What school's alma mater is "Far Above Cayuga's Waters"?
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Colgate University

Vassar College

Dartmouth College

Cornell University

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Question 3 of 10

3. Founded in Fes, Morocco in 859, what is the oldest extant university in the world?
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Istanbul University

Al-Azhar University

University of Al-Karaouine

Al-Mustansiriya University

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Question 4 of 10

4. The Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year awards are presented annually by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals society at what university?
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Princeton University

Harvard University

University of Cambridge

Yale University

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Question 5 of 10

5. Complete the title of the 1940 Laurel and Hardy film: "A Chump at _______________".
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Cambridge

Oxford

Harvard

Yale

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Question 6 of 10

6. What university set the Division I-A record for the longest football losing streak by losing 34 games between 1979 and 1982?
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University of California (Berkeley)

Baylor University

Northwestern University

Mississippi State University

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Question 7 of 10

7. Shooting from what university's 27-story tower on Aug. 1,1966 did Charles Whitman kill 14 people and wound 32 others?
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University of Oklahoma

Texas A&M University

University of Texas at Austin

University of Mississippi

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Question 8 of 10

8. At what university is the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs?
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Harvard University

Princeton University

Rutgers University

University of Virginia

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Question 9 of 10

9. From what university did Bill Cosby earn both his B.A. and his M.A.?
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Hillman College

Drexel University

Temple University

Howard University

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Question 10 of 10

10. At what university did Everett Franklin Lindquist develop the ACT (examination) and the first National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Tests?
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University of Missouri

Indiana University

University of Iowa

Ohio State University

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What school's win over Kentucky for the 1966 NCAA men's basketball championship is depicted in the 2006 film "Glory Road"?

Answer: Texas Western College

Head coach Don Haskins led Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso) with the first all-black starting lineup in NCAA history to victory. The film starred Josh Lucas as Haskins with Jon Voight as the legendary coach Adolph Rupp of the University of Kentucky.

2. What school's alma mater is "Far Above Cayuga's Waters"?

Answer: Cornell University

The main campus of Cornell University is located in the city of Ithaca on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in central New York. Cayuga Lake is the longest of New York's glacial Finger Lakes and the second to Seneca Lake in surface area.

3. Founded in Fes, Morocco in 859, what is the oldest extant university in the world?

Answer: University of Al-Karaouine

Al-Azhar in Cairo, founded in 975, is the second oldest. The great Jewish philosopher and theologian Maimonides (1135-1204) studied at Al-Karaouine under Abdul Arab Ibn Muwashah, but those were more civilized times.

4. The Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year awards are presented annually by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals society at what university?

Answer: Harvard University

In 1951 the Hasty Pudding Theatricals gave its first award to Gertrude Lawrence. The 2009 winners were James Franco and Ren�e Zellweger.

5. Complete the title of the 1940 Laurel and Hardy film: "A Chump at _______________".

Answer: Oxford

Arguably, one of the better Laurel and Hardy films, "Chump at Oxford" was their penultimate film made at the Hal Roach studios. Stan and Ollie decide to get an education because in Stan's words "we're not illiterative enough". When a bank robber slips on a banana peel that Stan had discarded, the grateful bank manager buys them an Oxford education.

6. What university set the Division I-A record for the longest football losing streak by losing 34 games between 1979 and 1982?

Answer: Northwestern University

When Northwestern set the new record in 1981 by losing at home in style to Michigan State 61-14, students rushed on the field and celebrated. After defeating Wyoming 27-22 on Sept. 15, 1979, the Wildcats did not win again until they defeated Northern Illinois 31-6 on Sept. 25, 1982.

7. Shooting from what university's 27-story tower on Aug. 1,1966 did Charles Whitman kill 14 people and wound 32 others?

Answer: University of Texas at Austin

Whitman had already killed his wife and mother in their homes shortly before the tower massacre. Until surpassed by the Virginia Tech massacre, this had been the deadliest campus mass shooting.

8. At what university is the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs?

Answer: Princeton University

The school is known as "Woody Woo" on campus. Woodrow Wilson was a member of
Princeton's Class of 1879 and the university's 13th president.

9. From what university did Bill Cosby earn both his B.A. and his M.A.?

Answer: Temple University

Cosby also earned an Ed.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. At Temple, he ran track and played fullback on the football team. He has been an active alumni supporter of his alma mater. Hillman College was the fictional historically black college that was the setting of "A Different World", a spin-off series of "The Cosby Show".

10. At what university did Everett Franklin Lindquist develop the ACT (examination) and the first National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Tests?

Answer: University of Iowa

In 1929 Lindquist developed a set of tests that evolved into the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, an exam for elementary and middle school students, as well as the Iowa Tests of Educational Development for high school students. The Lindquist Center, the building on the Iowa City campus in which the College of Education is located, was named in his honor.

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